EVENT HORIZON - Ship Of The Week #26 6/20/2015
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Makes absolutely no sense to design a ship that way unless your actual goal was to scare the living hell out of the crew and make them die if they accidentally fell against the spike wall or into the grinder hall, but an immense and cool looking ship regardless. Definitely memorable.
One of the best 'horror movie in space' ships designed, there have been a ton of B-movie ships trying the same thing and most have been duds.
This one just feels creepier in a more effective way, distinctive and great model work from the production team. The movement and lighting of the exterior were excellent, keeping her in shadow but being able to see the entire design.
The ship needed to be as much a character as the rest for the story, and they did a pretty good job of that.
This one just feels creepier in a more effective way, distinctive and great model work from the production team. The movement and lighting of the exterior were excellent, keeping her in shadow but being able to see the entire design.
The ship needed to be as much a character as the rest for the story, and they did a pretty good job of that.
I think the ship was designed by whoever wrote the "chompers" episode of Galaxy Quest. 
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqVqxWU-Itg[/yt]
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqVqxWU-Itg[/yt]
To be fair, everyone was meant to be strapped in in the head section. Only engineers specially trained would be down in the drive section, near the gravitic core.
The whole design is as minimal as possible, probably to make her as small and light as they could, give the core less to push.
It made her feel even creepier, even the ship was skeletal.
The whole design is as minimal as possible, probably to make her as small and light as they could, give the core less to push.
It made her feel even creepier, even the ship was skeletal.
It's not a criticism, just a joke. I get the need to make the ship scary looking for the horror movie. I loved the ship and liked the movie.
Rubbish!
I'm with Locutus. (Well, except I'm actually serious.) This ship basically has "deathtrap" tattooed on its forehead. And on its neck, and on its arm....
And let's put spikes around the black hole generator, just to create "tension" about whether anyone will get impaled.
I'm with Locutus. (Well, except I'm actually serious.) This ship basically has "deathtrap" tattooed on its forehead. And on its neck, and on its arm....
And let's put spikes around the black hole generator, just to create "tension" about whether anyone will get impaled.
Found this in my archives from when the movie came out (click to enlarge) and enlarged it/cleaned it up a little:
Here's the Event Horizon looking quaint by comparison (It's right above the ID4 city destroyer if you don't want to play Where's Waldo):
Here's the Event Horizon looking quaint by comparison (It's right above the ID4 city destroyer if you don't want to play Where's Waldo):
Could anybody explain to me why it didn't fall into Neptune?!?
It's okay I know it was, it's not remotely safe a design for anyone. But it can still make some weird sense that they needed to go super minimal and some things jutted out, the crew knew where it all was and accepted the risk.
Skeletal ships with mummified faces and spike decor aren't going to get a stamp of approval from anyone with a working brain in real life.
I'd have loved one flashback to show the crew embarking though, taking a good look around, even when there wasn't blood and mood lighting everywhere.
Pity the movie itself wasn't quite as good.
Yeah, but, IIRC, Dr. Mad Scientist assured everybody that the core was off. We knew otherwise of course, but no one seemed to wonder why the ship was just hanging there.
It had come back from another dimension and basically everything was beyond weird, it was on their to do list of things to figure out.
Even if the core is off, it might still act in some passive manner. Just incase the drive worked by creating wormholes between sufficient gravitational points in two universes, therefore putting the ship at risk of emerging then the main power failing.
Or, yeah, hell stuff.
Even if the core is off, it might still act in some passive manner. Just incase the drive worked by creating wormholes between sufficient gravitational points in two universes, therefore putting the ship at risk of emerging then the main power failing.
Or, yeah, hell stuff.
